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crab coast & cockleshells

allan
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since 2000-04-09

Posts 620
On the road

0 posted 2000-07-17 05:18 PM

Along the coast
the clouds are restless grey
the wind is pure whisky here
up by highland way
we stroll through the heather
stumbling along on brown paths
bare

surrounding us, the hills
like old friends
rounded by time

we drink in the cottages
stoney-grey fathers
crouching by the sea
talking of legends
in their sleep

far out on the tide
the seawrack waves back and forth
keeping time to the slow waves
from Caithness point and north

late, we stumble to the pub
for a hot toddy or two

before a candle lit bed beckons to dreams
of heather bells,
distant fires
and hearts of oak

[This message has been edited by allan (edited 07-18-2000).]

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2000-07-17 08:33 PM

Absolutely beautiful, Allan! Wonderfully written!

Denise

midnightblues
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since 2000-07-01

Posts 1597
Singapore

2 posted 2000-07-18 04:14 AM

MMMmmmm to be able to appreciate the beauty of nature and man's efforts...allan u astound me! *S* What a beautiful sight u paint

If there cannot be equal in affection, then let the one with more be me - midnightblues™

lotharingia
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since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

3 posted 2000-07-18 10:15 AM

Could it be that you are homesick?
You've managed to make me wish I was in Wales (as I've never been in Scotland I can't want to be there).
Awfully good as usual!

Is coccle really spelt like that

Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland

allan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-09

Posts 620
On the road

4 posted 2000-07-18 12:10 PM

Oops!

[This message has been edited by allan (edited 07-18-2000).]

allan
Senior Member

since 2000-04-09

Posts 620
On the road

5 posted 2000-07-18 12:12 PM

Wow you have an eagle eye Uta! (Cockle) Homesick - maybe while I was writing this - but this was a quickie, 5 mins or so! (I'd got over it by the end!)

Denise & MB - thank you, thank you!

Allan

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